Sharad Pawar’s MCA to Move SC on Lodha Panel Recommendations

Two vital recommendations of the panel would affect the MCA.

NCP President Sharad Pawar also is the President of the MCA (Photo: Reuters)

Mumbai Cricket Association, headed by former BCCI President Sharad Pawar, would file an intervention application before the Supreme Court to highlight the difficulties in implementing Justice R M (retired) Lodha Committee’s recommendations to restructure the Board.

This was decided at a meeting of the MCA’s Managing Committee, said a media release today from the association’s joint secretaries, P V Shetty and Unmesh Khanvilkar.

In a meeting of the Managing Committee of the Mumbai Cricket Association to discuss the far ranging consequences of the Lodha Committee’s recommendations, it was unanimously decided that the Mumbai Cricket Association would file an intervention application before the Supreme Court and highlight the difficulties and inconsistencies in the report. Accordingly, the members unanimously authorised Joint Honorary Secretaries and Vice President Ashish Shelar to seek appropriate legal advice and file necessary applications before the Court.

MCA Press Release

One of the recommendations of the Lodha panel of “one state, one vote” will specifically affect MCA as there are four units affiliated to the BCCI from the state of Maharashtra - MCA, Pune-headquartered Maharashtra Cricket Association, Nagpur-headquartered Vidarbha CA and the Mumbai-based Cricket Club of India.

Another reform suggested by the Lodha panel is that none above the age of 70 can be an office-bearer in the BCCI, which will affect MCA as Pawar is 75 years old.